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a twist

How about a twist on this:

I have a page with a link that loads another page. No problem, straight html. However the loaded page takes some time to load since it's parsing some PHP. So I created a little javascript that opens a new popup window that says "your page is being loade, chill out" or something. I called this popup window "popup" from the javascript that opens it:

onClick="window.open('url', 'popup', width, height)

Now what I want to do is close the popup window once the called page loads. So I thought that if I put into the called page:

<body onLoad="window.close('popup')>

it would do the trick, but all it does is close itself! How can I tell it to close the popup window?